Monsanto’s GMO Food and its Dark Connections to the “Military Industrial Complex”

Monsanto, the world’s largest genetically modified (GM/GMO) seed
producer, has been at the centre of controversy for decades as evidence
of the harmful effects on humans of GM foods continues to mount. Joined
with the likes of DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred International and Syngenta,
Monsanto and partners comprise the corporate nexus of Big-Agri, where
the control over our food supply is increasingly transferred into the
hands of private trans-national corporations as opposed to local farmers
and governments.A US peer-reviewed study conducted last year which was published in the scientific journal Entropy, linked Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup –
which is the most popular weed killer in the world – to infertility,
cancers and Parkinsons Disease amongst other ailments. The authors of
the study were Stephanie Seneff, a research scientist at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Anthony Samsel, a retired
science consultant from Arthur D. Little, Inc. and a former private
environmental government contractor. The main ingredient in Roundup is
the “insidious” glyphosate, which the study found to be a deeply harmful
chemical:

“Glyphosate enhances the damaging effects of other food
borne chemical residues and environmental toxins. Negative impact on the
body is insidious and manifests slowly over time as inflammation
damages cellular systems throughout the body [...] Consequences are most
of the diseases and conditions associated with a Western diet, which
include gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, diabetes, heart disease,
depression, autism, infertility, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease” (Samsel and Seneff, 2013).

The Executive Director of the Institute for Responsible Technology
(IRT) Jeffrey M. Smith has discovered a link between gluten disorders
and GM foods in a study he conducted last year. Gluten disorders have
sharply risen over the past 2 decades, which correlates with GM foods being
introduced into the food supply. Smith asserts that GM foods –
including soy and corn – are the possible “environmental triggers” that
have contributed to the rapid increase of gluten disorders that effect
close to 20 million American’s today:

“Bt-toxin, glyphosate, and other components of GMOs, are
linked to five conditions that may either initiate or exacerbate
gluten-related disorders [...] If glyphosate activates retinoic acid,
and retinoic acid activates gluten sensitivity, eating GMOs soaked with
glyphosate may play a role in the onset of gluten-related disorders” (Smith, 2013).

One of the more damming studies on the safety of GM foods was led by
biologist Dr. Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University of Caen, which was
the first study to examine the long term affects on rats that had
consumed Monsanto’s GM corn and its Roundup herbicide. The study was
conducted over a 2 year period – which is the average life-span of a rat
– as opposed to Monsanto’s usual period of 90 days. The peer-reviewed
study found horrifying effects on
the rats health, with a 200% to 300% increase in large tumours, severe
organ damage to the kidney and liver and 70% of female participant rats
suffered premature death. The first tumours only appeared 4 to 7 months
into the research, highlighting the need for longer trials.

Initially the study was published in the September issue of Food and
Chemical Toxicology, but was then later retracted after the publisher
felt the study was “inconclusive”, although there was no suspicion of
fraud or intentional deceit. Dr. Seralini strongly protested the
decision and believed “economic interests” were behind the decision as a
former Monsanto employee had joined the journal. Monsanto is infamous
for employing swaths oflobbyists to control the political, scientific and administrative decisions relating to the organisation, and this incident was a major whitewash by the GM producer to
stop the barrage of negative media reports relating to the toxic
effects of their products. The study led by Dr. Seralini was later
published in a less well renowned journal, the Environmental Sciences
Europe, which reignited the fears of GM foods safety.

France has recently implemented a ban on Monsanto produced maize (MON810)
– a different variety of the Monsanto GM corn that was discussed in the
study above (NK603) – citing environmental concerns as the reason for
the ban. France joins a list of countries including Italy and Poland who
have imposed bans on GM corn over the past few years. Additionally,
Russian MPs have introduced a draft into parliament which could see GM producers punished as terrorists and
criminally prosecuted if they are deemed to have harmed the environment
or human health. In India, many of the GM seeds sold to Indian farmers
under the pretext of greater harvests failed to deliver, which led to an
estimated 200,000 Indian farmers committing suicide due to an inability to repay debts.There is growing evidence to support the theory that bee colonies are collapsing due to GM crops being
used in agriculture, with America seeing the largest fall in bee
populations in recent years. Resistance to Monsanto and GM foods has
been growing in recent years after the launch of the worldwide ‘March Against Monsanto’ in
2012, which organises global protests against the corporation and its
toxic products within 52 countries. Monsanto was also voted the ‘most evil corporation’
of 2013 in a poll conducted by the website Natural News, beating the
Federal Reserve and British Petroleum to take the top position.

Monsanto Produced and Supplied Toxic Agent OrangeResearching Monsanto’s past reveals a very dark history that has been
well documented for years. During the Vietnam War, Monsanto was
contracted to produce and supply the US government with a malevolent
chemical for military application. Along with other chemical giants at
the time such as Dow Chemical, Monsanto produced the military herbicide Agent Orange which
contained high quantities of the deadly chemical Dioxin. Between 1961
and 1971, the US Army sprayed between 50 and 80 million litres of Agent
Orange across Vietnamese jungles, forests and strategically advantageous
positions. It was deployed in order to destroy forests and fertile
lands which provided cover and food for the opposing troops. The fallout was devastating,
with Vietnam estimating that 400,000 people died or were maimed due to
Agent Orange, as well as 500,000 children born with birth defects and up
to 2 million people suffer from cancer or other diseases. Millions of
US veterans were also exposed and many have developed similar illnesses.
The consequences are still felt and are thought to continue for a
century as cancer, birth defects and other diseases are exponential due to them being passed down through generations.

Today, deep connections exist between Monsanto, the ‘Military
Industrial Complex’ and the US Government which have to be documented to
understand the nature of the corporation. On Monsanto’s Board of
Directors sits the former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the giant war
contractor Lockheed Martin, Robert J. Stevens,
who was also appointed in 2012 by Barack Obama to the Advisory
Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. As well as epitomising the
revolving door that exists between the US Government and private
trans-national corporations, Stevens is a member of the parallel government in the US, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). A second board member at Monsanto is Gwendolyn S. King,
who also sits on the board of Lockheed Martin where she chairs the
Orwellian ‘Ethics and Sustainability Committee”. Individuals who are
veterans of the corporate war industry should not be allowed control
over any populations food supply! Additionally, Monsanto board member Dr. George H. Poste is
a former member of the Defense Science Board and the Health Board of
the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society
and a member of the CFR.

Bill Gates made headlines in 2010 when The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation bought 500,000 Monsanto shares
worth a total of $23 million, raising questions as to why his
foundation would invest in such a malign corporation. William H. Gates
Sr. – Bill’s father – is the former head of Planned Parenthood and a
strong advocate of eugenics–
the philosophy that there are superior and inferior types of human
beings, with the inferior type often sterilised or culled under the
pretext of being a plague on society. During his 2010 TED speech,
Bill Gates reveals his desire to reduce the population of the planet by
“10 or 15 percent” in the coming years through such technologies as
“vaccines”:“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s heading up to about 9
billion. Now if we do a really good job on new vaccines, health care,
reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15
percent” (4.37 into the video).

In 2006, Monsanto acquired a company that
has developed – in partnership with the US Department of Agriculture –
what is popularly termed terminator seeds, a future major trend in the
GM industry. Terminator Seeds or suicide seeds are engineered to become
sterile after the first harvest, destroying the ancient practice of
saving seeds for future crops. This means farmers are forced to buy new
seeds every year from Big-Agri, which produces high debts and a form of
servitude for the farmers.